Israel's treatment of West Bank settlements is indeed abusive and bad faith. It's the result of a fanatical subset of Israelis who are influential in its right-

Israel's treatment of West Bank settlements is indeed abusive and bad faith. It's the result of a fanatical subset of Israelis who are influential in its right-wing government. The current government has a lot to answer for -- including a series of corruption trials. But Gaza is not the West Bank. They are geographically and politically separate. Gaza is in the opposite position: Israel withdrew its settlements. They allowed Hamas to take over the government. Some claim that was a deliberate choice by that same right-wing government, to make it seem as if Palestinians were incapable of governing themselves. (I cannot vouch for the truth of that, but it's clear that Israel did not approach its abandonment of Gaza entirely in good faith.) Nonetheless, there's no way to justify Hamas' attack on October 7 in terms of the West Bank situation. It has nothing to do with sympathy over settlers. It's entirely due to a dedicated campaign of genocide against Jews, explicitly referenced in the Hamas charter. What's happening in the West Bank might be described as apartheid. But the situation in Gaza makes it clear that it's not mere racism. There is a genuine threat, not just of attack but of atrocities. I think that makes it harder to justify comparisons to South Africa, which deliberately gloss over real horrors. It's hard to attribute that deliberate ignorance to anything other than antisemitism.